Merit to build £30m modular NHS medicines centreLocal offsite specialist Merit has been appointed to design and fit-out a £30m NHS Medicines Manufacturing Centre in Northumberland.
The new centre will be hosted by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust at its Manufacturing & Innovation Hub in Seaton Delaval.
Works to manufacture the offsite components of the build have now begun in…
Buckingham supply chain hit soars above £300mAdministrators for collapsed contractor Buckingham Group have revealed the amount owed to its supply chain has now topped £300m.
When the firm went into administration in September 2023 there were 1,292 unsecured creditors with claims totalling £113m.
That figure was increased in a progress report from Grant Thornton in April to 1,375 claims…
Winners of £3bn London housing major works dealForty-eight firms have secured spots on the revamped London Construction Programme major works housing framework.
London’s Haringey Borough Council handled the procurement of the £3bn framework, which has been reshaped to allocate places for SME firms as well as bigger players in the market.
Among the big name winners are Graham, Kier, Higgins,…
BBC brickies firm went down owing £2m to suppliersA construction firm featured in a BBC series about young bricklayers went under owing nearly £2m to subcontractors and suppliers.
Hodgkinson Builders featured in the BBC Three docuseries Brickies which ran for two seasons from 2022/23 following the lives of young recruits at the Derby-based contractor.
The firm went into administration last…
Network Rail reveals top suppliers spendNetwork Rail’s top suppliers were paid nearly £4.1bn last year – 42% of the infrastructure provider’s total spend with suppliers.
The rail infrastructure body raised spending among its leading suppliers by 7%, with major power supplier EDF continuing to rank as the biggest supplier followed by signalling and train control specialist Siemens Mobility…
Go-ahead for £125m Immingham Ro-Ro terminalThe Government has given Associated British Ports the go-ahead to build a large roll on roll off terminal at its port in Immingham on the Humber Estuary.
Transport Secretary Louise Haigh granted development consent paving the way for contractor Dragados to start work on the £125m eastern Ro-Ro Terminal plan next year.
Works are set to cover at least 46…
Renew buys onshore wind firm for £50mRenew has bought onshore wind turbine maintenance specialist Full Circle for £50.5m.
Paul Scott, Chief Executive Officer of Renew, said: “The acquisition of Full Circle represents an exciting opportunity for the group to enter a high-growth, and fragmented onshore wind services market.
“Full Circle operates a scalable technology-enabled platform across a…
New construction boss for Robertson North EastRobertson Construction has promoted commercial director Neil Kennedy to regional managing director for the North East.
Kennedy, a quantity surveyor by profession, has been with Robertson Construction for over 15 years, and his promotion comes following the retirement of Garry Hope who has been the managing director of Robertson Construction North East…
Civils work fuels fastest output rise in two-and-a half yearsConstruction buyers reported the fastest growth for nearly two-and-half years in industry activity in September.
The bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index posted 57.2 in September, up from 53.6 in August and above the neutral 50.0 threshold for the seventh successive month.
The latest reading signalled a…
Renew sells Walter Lilly building armInfrastructure specialist Renew has sold its specialist building arm Walter Lilly.
Walter Lilly has been in business since 1924 working on building jobs across London and the South East.
It was acquired by Y.J.Lovell in 1955 which was renamed Renew in 2006 with a focus on engineering services.
The sale sees Walter Lilly offloaded to specialist luxury…